Vapor-burner



(No Model.)

W. P. BUTLER.

VAPOR BURNER.

No. 362,929. Patented May 17, 1887.

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IVILLIAM P. BUTLER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,929. dated May 17, 1887.

Application filed May 13, 1886. Serial No. 202,074.

T all whom it may concern:

Be itknown that I, WILLIAM P. BUTLER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in VaponBurners,oi'which the following is a specication.

My invention relates to vapor-burners, and the objects are to provide novel means forim parting heat to the pipe by which the hydrocarbon is conveyed to the jet-burner, to provide novel means for supporting the burner, whereby it can be quickly detached to permit its being cleaned, which is very desirable, owing to the fact that small insects are drawn into it from below, and to provide novel means for determining the proper position of the detachable burner when replaced, whereby its slitted tip will be so positioned as to cause the flame to issue laterally on the upper solid end of the gas conducting and heating pipe.

To such ends the invention consists in the several novel features of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter set forth, and definitely pointed out in the claims annexed to this specification.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a side elevation, partly in section, illustrating my invention. Fig. 2 is a plan View, Fig. 3, a broken detail perspective view,showing the disk-rest at thelower end of thegas-generating pipe; and Fig. it, a perspective view ofthe burner detached.

In the said drawings, the referenceurumeral l denotes that portion of the supply-pipe which is next to the burner. At its end it is provided with a vertical pipe, 2, at right angles therewith,which drops below the supplypipe and is supported by a bracket. Atthe lower end of the pipe 2 is formed a disk-rest, 3, for the burner, beneath which is a short branch of tubing, 4, formed by chambering the disk-rest, which conveys the gas to apoint beneath the burner, to which it is delivered through a minute opening, 5,whieh opensinto the open end of the burner. This opening is closed by a needle, G, operated by a screw, 7.

The burner Sis of a cylindrical form, and on the diskrest for the burner the open end rests upon a rib, 8, the position of the burner on the disk-rest being determined by notches (No model.)

9 in the lower end of the burncr,whieh engage with the rib. The burner is held upright by an annulus, 10, projecting laterally from the vertical pipe 2,and when in position the lower end of the slot ll is brought adjacent to the upper extremity of the said pipe, so that the flame from the burner-tip is directed laterally upon such upper end of the pipe. The burner is readily detached by lifting it from the annnlus or ring 10, which is desirable for the purpose of cleaning it, especially from small insects that arc drawn into it from below. The notches 9 in the lower end of the burner serve as a means for determining the proper position of the slitted tip of the burner with reference to the upper solid stem-like end of the pipe 2, when the burner is replaced in position, this being effected, as stated, by said notches cngaging the rib S on the diskrest.

In the wall of the burner, about mid way of its length, is found an aperture, l2, through which asub-jet of gas may be projected against the vertical pipe 2 and beneath the hood 13, which partly surrounds a diminished portion of the su pply-tube. This sub-jet serves to heat the tube suflieiently to volatilize the hydrocarbon before it enters the mixingchamber in the lower end of the burner.

When the escaping gas is ignited, the flame will impinge upon the upper extremity ofthe tube 2, which,at the poiutso exposed is of solid metal. By this means additional heat is derived, which, in ease the sub-jet should be extinguished, will impart suiiicicnt heat to the tube to maintain the volatilization of the hydrocarbou.

\Vhat I claim is- 1. In avapor-burner,the combination ofthe gas-generating tube 2, having a disk-rest, 3, at its lower end,and provided above said diskrcst with a latcrally-projccting ring, 10, with the burner detaehably held within said ring and loosely supported by the disk-rest, substantiall y as described.

2. In a vapor-bur11er,tl1e combination of the generating-pipe 2, having a disk-rest, 3, atits lower end, and provided above said disk-rest with a laterally-projecting ring, 10, with a burner detachably held within said ring and having a slit in its tip arranged at one side, adjacent to the solid upper end of the pipe, to

direct the flame laterally upon said upper en'd end with a disk-rest, 3, having a rib, 8",with of the pipe, substantiallyas described. l a burner detachably held within said ring,and

3. In a vapor-burner, the combinationof having a subjet orifice, 12, and a notched 15 the gas-generating pipe 2, having a laterallylower end engaging the rib, substantially as 5 projecting ring, 10, and a disk-rest, 3, below described.

the latter, having the rib 8a of the burner dc- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in tachably held within said ring, and having a presence of two witnesses. noto ed lower end engaging said rib, substantially as and for the purposes described. WILLIAM P BUTLER' Io 4. In a vapor-burner,the combination of the Witnesses:

gas-generating pipe 2, having the laterally SAMUEL A. MARTIN, projecting ring 10, and provided at its lower FRANK C. AYREs. 

